"m"
 

Has anyone seen the movie "M", with Peter Lorre? It's extremely interesting, about a child murderer (actually he's picky, he only kills little girls) It's pretty old (1933) and is subtitled, because the film is German. Anyway, rent it, or try to catch it on TV (every once in a while it's on Turner Classic). Very good movie, if you have the patience. Peter Lorre is a cinematic genius, I enjoy every one of his performances.

Has anyone else seen it, though?

I saw it a few years ago. Great movie. Very innovative. A film that was ahead of it's time. There was a remake in the 1950's with David Wayne. Not as good as the original , but a decent film.

I watched this on IFC a few months back and I have to agree. Very intriguing film and Peter Lorre was fantastic. I didn't realize there was a remake, I may have to track it down out of curiosity.

Fritz Lang is a great director. I got the chance to see this on the big screen when I was studying film. Awesome film very ahead of its time.

Peter Lorre deserves a pat on the back for his performance.

But seriously, he claimed once that, not long after the film opened, he was chased down the street by a mob of people who had seen the film and recognized him.

He was great in everything he did, I especially liked "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Invisible Agent."

Wow, I'm glad to see there's so many appreciative people out there of classic movie such as this. Also, I agree, and forgot to give credit to Fritz. What an amazing directing job. Peter Lorre is amazing, 20,000 leagues was good, I agree. So was Arsenic and Old Lace (also starring Cary Grant). Anyone seen that one? Kind of a dark comedy for its time. Really fun movie.

I have seen Arsenic and Old Lace many, many times. It is one of my mom's favorite movies. But I like it too. It is a very funny film and I love Cary Grant so no bad there.

Peter Lorre is great, a classic.

sure is, the raven, comedy of terrors, mad love.....

I don't care for The Raven all that much....gasp ;) but I love Mad Love. My absolute favorite Peter Lorre role though wasn't in a horror movie at all, but in The Maltese Falcon. I thought he was outstanding in that movie.

She's right. He was. He was also really good in Casablanca.

Oh ya Mad Love especially, Peter Lorre a somewhat forgotten legend among the horror world.

I'm a big Lorre fan, but curiosly, not his horrors. its his film noirs and the like that i'm more into. Have you seen 'the face behind the mask', its a cheapie short but still really good. Its Lorre in one of his more sympathetic roles and is actually quite sad. Funny Lorre makes me smile because he seems like a psychotic evil weasel in some of his films, and the voice and face adds to that of course, But in others you genuinely hear and see the sorrow and heatwrenching melancholy in that same voice and face

M is a classic...really really good film, although the Police Chief looks a lot to me like Hermann Goering!
Lorre was one of the best actors ever...lots of titles mentioned here I enjoy. Have FACE BEHIND THE MASK and must get to watching it one day...

Most of his films are good, you can pretty much enjoy all of them, he didn't make many stinkers that I can think of

"M" was awesome. As Lorre was amazing. He never wanted to work with Fritz Lang again, though. I guess Lang was pretty brutal to Lorre. Throwing him down a flight of stairs over a dozen times. So when Lang tried to hire Peter Lorre again for another movie he refused.

Saw it a long time ago with subtitles. After a few minutes the disruption of trying to read without missing any important visuals vanished and I didn't even know I was doing it. Excellent movie.

It's a great movie. I was originally drawn to it because of one of my favourite songs: In Germany before the war - Randy Newman. The song was inspired/based on, the movie.

it's ironic
 

I know a lot has been written about M. Sometimes horror film books use on the cover the shot of Lorre seeing the letter M in the mirror on the back of his coat.

It's kind of strange that one of Peter Lorre's greatest performances came so early in his career.

Another great Lorre film is The face behind the mask, which I have seen called "the greatest B movie of the 1950s."

If you like spoofs, Karloff, Price, and Lorre are hilarious in a movie called The Raven. I have heard that some of Peter Lorre's best lines in that movie were ad libs.
As the evil wizard, Karloff hated wearing that heavy cloak. (I read that in Famous Monsters of Filmland.)

surreal
 

That movie Mad Love is surreal. A head trip. Like the scene where Lorre appears wearing fake metal hands and a neck brace, pretending to be the dead killer.
That story has been made into a movie several times. I think this one was called The Hands of Orlac. It starred Mel Ferrer.